Because health cost benefits have decreased for those working. An MRI for my wife three years ago would have been an out of pocket cost of 100 bucks. Now it is 1100, we are too scared to see what her hip surgery will cost. We are choosing to deal with it.

great_tigers:Because health cost benefits have decreased for those working. An MRI for my wife three years ago would have been an out of pocket cost of 100 bucks. Now it is 1100, we are too scared to see what her hip surgery will cost. We are choosing to deal with it.

Good for you!I'm glad you are opting for choice.I call bullshiat.

Three years ago, your wife was probably employed and now she isn't. Or some other piece of the puzzle is missing.

All of the doctors I see are so against the ACA. They rant every time I see one. But, it should be noted that all of the doctors I see are very well-to-do older white males that service a town that is relatively poor.We quit seeing doctors.We now see nurse practitioners. Much less derp. Really.

StopLurkListen:rkiller1: A one month year-over-year decrease in the medical costs inflation RATE does not a reduction make.

Valid point, but I don't know which point is true, the article is inconsistent.

Ah, the original WSJ is a lot clearer " The Labor Department's price index for medical care [...] fell a seasonally adjusted 0.1% in May. The leading driver of last month's drop was a 0.6% contraction in prescription-drug costs "

Forgive me, subby if I fail to trust implicitly a source that declares itself, 'Real Liberal Politics' when it cheers Obamacare. I am sure those who reflexively scream at FoxNews and Daily Mail links share my cynicism.

I mean, if people start getting preventative care and don't get long-lived diseases that are expensive to treat, who is going to hire all the specialists that won't be needed? Healthy people are very inconsiderate to the Health Care Job Creators.

Fell for who? Mine has gone up every year for the past 4 years at least, and the three major health insurance companies in my state have had an increase in their premiums across the board for their individual (non-group) policies within the past 12 months.I mean, if it's gone down great, but...

Um no they didn't!!! Mine went up yet again! But to be fair I didn't think it was Obama's fault. It goes up $20 a year. By the time I'm 50 I will be paying $500 to $600 a month at this rate. Plus I can't ever get in to see a specialist for months on months, this IS a new thing.Thank goodness I'm healthy. Except for falling off hill top hot tubs. If you are not healthy you got a tough go of it.

js34603:So what specifically did the ACA implement that resulted in these lower costs?

It hasn't even been fully put into effect yet. So what part of what has been implemented led to lower costs?

"It cited new penalties on hospitals whose patients must be readmitted soon after being discharged, as well as still-developing efforts to improve care coordination and efficiency. Slow growth is also being driven by changes in employer-based healthcare plans, which are increasingly shifting more costs to employees." Link